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We also started off the month of February with a few more recruitment events that brought us four wonderful women for the Spring 2016 pledge class. We held our Spring Bid Day soon after to celebrate our new members, and the theme was Kappas Have S’more Fun! To complete this fun camping theme, we even brought a huge tent into the meeting room. We also held our first philanthropy event of the year, Kapparoni and Cheese, which is an event that was created and started by our Philanthropy Chairman in 2015. We decided to do it again this year and it was met with huge success. Many members of the Greek Community attended in support of us and our philanthropies. Our New Member Educator brought in a new system for getting to know the new members called Kappa Speed Dating, which was a really awesome way to help both the chapter and new members bond with each other better.
March began with the GLAs and was filled to the brim with philanthropy events, PHC events, and meetings. We had Big Little Reveal where our four new members happily joined their new families, and they began to feel even closer to Kappa. March was also the month that we started doing extension presentations to welcome another chapter onto our campus. We had a team of 10 sisters who regularly attended these presentations to help make the decision for our Panhellenic Community.
All in all, the morale of the chapter this year was very high. Our sisters were proactive in supporting other organizations on campus, and getting involved all over campus in the causes that they were passionate about. Many sisters were involved with the election, and strongly encouraged all members to go out and vote. Some were even involved with protests after the election. With the changing president of the university, there was a much more positive outlook for everyone on The University of Akron’s campus, and it was especially evident throughout the Greek Community as our new president become even more involved with our activities as well. 2016 was a great year to be a Lambda Kappa, and we are excited to see what 2017 has in store for us!
==Highlights of 2017==
2017 was filled with many amazing highs and some devastating lows. 2017 will be remembered for the work we did at Girls Academy, our Coachella themed bid day, and a loss of someone very special.
January
Leadership day started this year off on January 15 to welcome our new Chapter Council officers. At the end of the month we held COBs (Continuously Open Bidding) and participated in Warm up with the Greeks to gain us three new Kappas.
February
Before bid day we held formal pledging for the new members. In February we held a red, white, and blue bid day for the three new members. Then towards the end of February Lambda chapter held its first Girls Academy event at Hyre Middle School. Many actives and alumni spent a day and a half at the middle school building student’s confidence, leadership skills, and self-esteem. There was about 40 middle-schoolers attending this event. Actives were the leaders of the event and became role models for the girls. Some alum who made this event possible were Courtney Powell, Abbey Gauger, and Keri Deyling.
March
This month was started off with Lambda’s infamous Kapparoni and Cheese philanthropy event. At this event we sell different types of macaroni and cheese including buffalo chicken, hamburger, and a regular style. This was a great start for new members to get their feet wet into Kappa life. New members had their retreat where they bonded at the house with their pledge class. Big/little reveal gave the new members a person to look up to in Kappa. At the GLAs (Greek Life Awards) we won the sportsmanship award. Congratulations to our past president, Julie Logsdon, for winning the Chapter President of the Year award and the Thomas Vuckovich leadership award. Julie is everything that Kappa stands for and has really left her legacy for years to come. We ended the month with a parent’s lunch showing our loved ones what Kappa life is like.
April was an important month for the new members. The new members participated in spread, Blue and Blue, Fireside, and then they were initiated on April 8th. In this spring semester we have had almost perfect attendance in every other sororities or fraternities’ philanthropy events. Our presence in the community changed a lot due to being involved in others events. Kappas also participated in Relay for Life, Take Back the Night Walk, Walk of Heroes, and Dance Marathon. A new charter was acquired because the previous one had incorrect information on it. The charter had a woman on it who was not a charter signer, but the first initiated (Annie Litchfield Faber). The problems were fixed and now the new charter hangs on the formal room wall. Late Night Waffle bar was a hit as we served over a hundred waffles to the community. All the money raised went to our philanthropies. Formal was to the theme of Poseidon’s Sapphire Ball which took place at Tangiers.
Summer
May was a time for mourning in Kappa. Morgan Sisley, our past Event chairman from the year of 2013 and our past President from the year of 2015, passed away. She left us on May 23 due to ovarian cancer. Morgan was an essential part of how Kappa is today. Through her presidency she formed relationships with new members, other chapters, and the community that will never be forgotten. She has touched our lives in such a way that we can all agree she is our aspire to be. In July some members got to spend a day at Kappa Kidney Camp making new friends with the kids that were there. They participated in games, boating, tie dye, ate food with the kids, and played marshmallow dodgeball. As summer was ending, we had to prepare for recruitment. We started with confidence week to prepare and had an Ice-cream social with the other sororities to help recruit potential new members. During confidence week, we had daily photoshoots that were all themed differently. Some of the photoshoots were Akron themed, pajamas, summer themed, and Kappa themed. Move in day is important in trying to get girls for recruitment. This is where we helped incoming freshman move into the dorms while promoting Greek Life. We also attended the Glow Party to start out the semester. School started on August 28th and we were all excited to start a new semester out fresh.
September
Sisterhood round, philanthropy round, and preference round went by quickly and we were ready for bid day. The theme for this year’s bid day was Koachella. We were dressed in tie dyed shirts, flower crowns, and boho style outfits to achieve the perfect bid day. We received 22 new members all ready for what Kappa has to offer for them. Two of those new members were legacies, Stephanie Bohnak and Katherine Gage. That same day the new members were pledged into Kappa and had their first meeting. Their first meeting may have been confusing, but the new members were excited to get involved. Towards the end of the month, we had a Kappa Trainer come in from headquarters. She taught us the importance of academics and why school comes before Kappa. Our academics has been slowly going up, but the Kappa Trainer helped us get back on the right direction. On September 30, Kappa’s chapter retreat was held at an Indians game. It was a chilly night so we all snuggled up eating our $1 hot dogs and drinking our hot chocolate. Unfortunately, the Indians did not win, but we were rewarded with fireworks for sticking it out until the end of the game.
October
We Kappas love taking pictures and what better place to take pictures at than an apple orchard?! We had a sisterhood at Rittman apple orchards where we were picking apples and picking out the best pumpkins. The bees scared us, but they did not stop us from bringing bags full of apples home. The next week was Greek Week. The theme was Disney and we were teamed up with Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) and Sigma Nu. Our team name was Oozma Kappa based on the movie “Monsters University”. We participated in a banner contest, rock painting, capture the flag, a “Moana” movie night, an escape room, Greek God and Goddess, and a day of service. We placed 2nd in the banner contest, 1st in rock painting, and 4th place overall out of 6 teams. On October 13, Kappa’s birthday, the registrar held a birthday party for members and alumni. At this party there was old slides shown on an old projector, old films that were formatted to play on a CD, a research paper on the real history of Lambda’s tragic fire in 1890, and much more. Many new members came and learned about Kappa’s history.
The day of October 22nd will be a day remember by the new members forever. That day started off the new member’s bigs hiding in trunks of cars until their littles found them. After the new members found their families, we headed to Tangiers for our Founders day. We reminisced on the past as many alumni were there. A lambda alum who was over 100 years old was there to celebrate too. New Member of the Year award was given to Emily Toth, Active of the Year award was given to Emily Bader, Chapter Advisor of the Year award was given to Kimberly Steel. Lastly, Jen Tater received the Maid of Minerva Award of Merit from the Akron Alumnae Association. Congratulations to all who worked hard in the name of Kappa Kappa Gamma.